Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County, V.I, p.399

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History of Cambria County, V.1

HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. 399

present time it is made up of from ten to sixteen pages, the columns being twenty-one inches in length. It has no weekly issue. R. J. Kaylor is the managing editor, and H. G. Kaylor business manager. Its circulation in February was 6,900. R. J. Kaylor is a practical printer, having learned the trade on the Freeman, the Altoona Mirror and the Altoona Sunday Morning. January 1, 1889, he became foreman of the Carrolltown News. In '90 he was engaged in the Times Printing Company job office in Philadelphia, owned by John Wanamaker.
     The Northern Cambria News is published by the News Publishing Company, at Hastings, with H. E. Williams as editor. It was established in 1902, and now has eight pages, 13 by 20, and is issued on Friday.
     The Portage Press was established in 1903, as an independent newspaper. F. W. Eicher was editor and publisher. It had eight pages, 13 by 20. It ceased to appear in the fall of 1906.
     The Conemaugh Valley Monthly was a magazine published in Johnstown by the Conemaugh Valley Publishing Company, the first number appearing in August, 1906. Rufus Hatch Holbrook was the editor and Benjamin F. Watkins, business manager. It was a literary production and especially aimed to portray picturesque views in the valley; the illustrations were taken from very fine photographs. But four numbers of the monthly had been issued when on December 1, 1906, the Saturday Night appeared in its place. The latter, controlled by the same parties and published by the Conemaugh Publishing Company, was a twenty-page, 11 by 14, illustrated weekly, consisting of general literature, cartoons and portraits, and pictures of local scenery, which suspended publication in March, 1907.

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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	399
present time it is made up of from ten to sixteen pages, the columns being twenty-one inches in length. It has no weekly issue. R. J. Kaylor is the managing editor, and H. G. Kaylor business manager. Its circulation in February was 6,900. R. J. Kaylor is a practical printer, having learned the trade on the Freeman, the Altoona Mirror and the Altoona Sunday Morning. January 1, 1889, he became foreman of the Carrolltown News. In '90 he was engaged in the Times Printing Company job office in Philadelphia, owned by John Wanamaker. The Northern Cambria News is published by the News Publishing Company, at Hastings, with H. E. Williams as editor. It was established in 1902, and now has eight pages, 13 by 20, and is issued on Friday. The Portage Press was established in 1903, as an independent newspaper. F. W. Eicher was editor and publisher. It had eight pages, 13 by 20. It ceased to appear in the fall of 1906. The Conemaugh Valley Monthly was a magazine published in Johnstown by the Conemaugh Valley Publishing Company, the first number appearing in August, 1906. Rufus Hatch Holbrook was the editor and Benjamin F. Watkins, business manager. It was a literary production and especially aimed to portray picturesque views in the valley; the illustrations were taken from very fine photographs. But four numbers of the monthly had been issued when on December 1, 1906, the Saturday Night appeared in its place. The latter, controlled by the same parties and published by the Conemaugh Publishing Company, was a twenty-page, 11 by 14, illustrated weekly, consisting of general literature, cartoons and portraits, and pictures of local scenery, which suspended publication in March, 1907.